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Oh noooooo due to my late night corn escapades Mayhem went to bed without me and I had to wake her up to take her foot brace off! I'm sorry, Maybe!!! You can go back to sleep!

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Good morning, Maybe Baby!

#the highwater cats are so good to look at and well-depicted

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Carriola Tussock Moths: these moths have translucent patches (i.e. hyaline windows) on their wings, and their green-tinted veins are clearly visible within

Above: Carriola witti

Moths of the genus Carriola have a very unusual appearance, as their wings are covered in translucent patches that reveal a delicate network of greenish-yellow veins. The green coloration is caused by the haemolymph (the insect equivalent of blood) that passes through these veins when the moth's wings are initially unfurled.

Above: the male form of Carriola thyridophora, with a close-up of the hyaline windows and bright green veins on its wings

The males of this genus typically have brown or beige borders around their wings, while the females have pink or white borders instead. The hyaline windows in each wing also tend to be much clearer and more extensive in the females, which gives their wings a lacey appearance.

Above: the female form of Carriola seminsula

This article describes the adaptive benefits of wing transparency in moths:

The coevolutionary arms race between prey and predator has generated some of the most striking adaptations in the living world, including lures, mimicry and camouflage in prey. Transparency, by definition, constitutes the perfect background matching against virtually all types of backgrounds. Transparency is common in pelagic environments where there is no place to hide.

Above: genus Carriola

Carriola tussock moths can be found in many different countries throughout Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines and Malaysia. Some of these moths are also found in China, India and Sri Lanka.

Above: Carriola seminsula

This is one of my favorite moths, tbh. I love it when moths have hyaline windows on their wings, and this genus is especially beautiful and bizarre.

Sources & More Info:

Nota Lepidopterologica: Review of the Genus Carriola with Descriptions of Four New Species

Singapore Biodiversity: Carriola ecnomoda

iNaturalist: Genus Carriola

BioRxiv: How Transparent Wing Windows Reduce Detectability in Moths

Journal of Evolutionary Biology: Transparency Improves Concealment in Cryptically Colored Moths (PDF)

Moths of Borneo: Carriola Tussock Moths and Carriola ecnomoda

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"Deceptive Outward Appearance" (2007) by Ole Martin Lund Bo — wood installation

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$450,000/3 br/2 ba

Bisbee, AZ

Built in 1919

#oh fuck i really like this one #house ...#house of leaves #....#house hunting

my eyeballs are dryballs

#and other such thoughts

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ms-demeanor

Okay there are several major buckets that the majority of my job seems to fall into.

CX/Service Delivery/Account Management - this is where i run meetings and create service reports and check performance metrics and do things like build internal adoption surveys for clients or compile software installation reports or put together training resources.

Tech debt/lifecycle management - this is where i keep track of renewable licenses, hardware age, resource utilization, etc, to figure out when one of the 7k-ish pieces of hardware we manage needs to be replaced. This involves quoting and contacting clients, following up on declined quotes (because that becomes tech debt that the client carries) managing the documentation of the 7k-ish devices, reporting on company-wide tech debt, and also involves CX and account management because i have to know the client environments and budgets for about 250-300 clients.

Marketing??? - creating line cards for our products, tracking lead status, creating content for the website or newsletters, creating sales or informational mailing campaigns, creating video and written resources for our clients

Data analysis/extraction and reporting - creating reports and dashboards to track client information, handle ticket triage, provide sales and revenue reporting, etc. Making my feral databases. I've made something like 60 internal and client-facing dashboards, one of these dashboards freed up about a quarter million dollars of billable time each year because i can now do it in two hours whereas it used to take four hours a week each for four of out tier three techs.

Licensing and contract management - I'm the only one who understands Microsoft Licensing and I'm the only one who knows how to do our monthly license reconciliation. In May when I did our license reconciliation I found $8000 a month of unadjusted MRR and *today* i found another $1500 a month we just haven't been billing for no goddamned reason.

I think that's most of it, other than maybe like, CX is sales and contract stuff.

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You know, it occurs to me that because I've got three supervisors and am working for a minimum of four departments, it's entirely possible that nobody in the organization knows everything that I'm doing.

#this is entirely possible and i would say likely #how aware is each supervisor of your work under other departments?#alternately: if someone does know then they should be aware of a major burnout/flight risk #and be acting accordingly.

my notes from the morning samples were like "site description: closely-packed volcanic rock, ~cobblestones, basaltic(?), over approx 6 inches beachy sand. Subsurface: silt/clay grading to weak siltstone. Vegetation: scattered alkaline-tolerant scrub, (list of species)" and the notes from the afternoon are like "it's fucking sand. in exactly the same way everything else is"

#bonus content:#“surface bedrock is sandstone. difficult to distinguish on satellite view from surrounding sand due to being also sand.”